The University of Washington School of Public Health invites you to join us for the SPH Open House on Thursday, April 5, 2018, from 11 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at Husky Union Building (HUB) 250. Learn more about the 62+ undergraduate and graduate programs offered by the UW School of Public Health. This event is open to all! That said, all current UW students, prospective students from all over Washington State, and anyone interested in learning about the different pathways to public health at the UW are welcome!

This is a free event. Please RSVP here, and share this event with your students.

Refreshments will be served.

For more information, please see attached flyer, or email us at sphosa@uw.edu.

Are you considering a public health graduate degree? The Department of Health Services trains students for influential careers in public health practice and research, health administration, health promotion, and health policy. Would you like to learn more about the types of graduate degrees we offer and what makes them unique?

The Department of Health Services invites you to attend “Which Public Health Degree is Right For Me?” –

What: Join us for a panel led by graduate students in our COPHP, MPH, MS, MHA, MHIHIM, and Online Executive MPH programs, followed by small group break-out sessions. Pizza and beverages will be served!

When: Thursday May 3, 2018; 5:30-7:30pm

Where: UW Seattle campus, South Campus Center, Room 303

Please RSVP here by Sunday April 29 to reserve your spot!

Facebook event page here.

 

Hello students,

I am from Health & Wellness and along with Patricia Atwater in Hall Health, we would like to provide an opportunity for students who are doing work in the areas of health, well-being, safety and social justice to get together. The purpose of the meeting is to get to know each other, hear about events and programs that are planned throughout the year and find ways to collaborate. Our proposed agenda is:

1. Introduction and a UW student leader perspective
2. Speed meeting activity
3. Student Well-Being Collaborative overview
4. Mapping the events and programs throughout the year
5. Time to connect and collaborate
6. Decide how this group can be helpful going forward

Let us know if you have any thoughts, comments, questions and please fill out this doodle to get the meeting scheduled by the end of the quarter. Food will be provided!

We look forward to meeting you all and working together this year.

Talk soon,

Melissa

Melissa Tumas, MPH

Training and Education Coordinator

Health & Wellness | Student Life

University of Washington

109 Elm Hall | Box 355600

206.221.7187

www.livewell.uw.edu

Please save the date for our upcoming Health Sciences Common Book Advocacy Event on November 9^th featuring Brady Walkinshaw, former WA state legislator and Editor of GRIST magazine.  For more information, go to facebook.com/uwhscommonbook.

VOLUNTEER IN PERU THIS SUMMER 2017!

IChange Peru is looking for volunteers interested in Pre-Health, Public Health, Social Work, Education, Spanish and more!Impact the under served communities of Peru.  Learn about the culture and gain hands-on experience. Explore one of the world’s most diverse countries and it’s spectacular beauty.

Application Deadline EXTENDED: April 28, 2017

http://ichangeperu.org/apply/

For more information:

Alejandra Ruiz

Project Director

 

P: 602-476-4291

E:  aruiz@ichangeperu.org

E: info@ichangeperu.org

W: www.ichangeperu.org

The Department of Global Health common application for Funding for Fieldwork is now available as of February 1, 2017. These funding opportunities are available to full-time UW graduate students, professional students and medical residents, and Global Health Minor undergraduate students to help support short term fieldwork experiences in global health. Please be sure to read the application requirements thoroughly for each fellowship program and identify those programs for which you qualify.

The following fellowships in the Common application are

• Warren George Povey Endowed Fund for Global Health Students Fellowship
• Global Opportunities in Health (GO Health) Fellowship
• Stergachis Endowed Fellowship in International Exchange
• Thomas Francis, Jr. Global Health Fellowship

Details for these programs and list of past participants can be found on theGHRC Funding for Fieldwork page.

This year the SCOPE fellowship conducted an early round of applications and have selected their fellows for the 2017-18 year. Therefore, the SCOPE fellowship is not included in this cycle’s DGH Common Application.

Deadline to submit all materials is Wednesday, March 15, 2017 by 11:59 p.m.

For questions regarding the application or other details, please contact the Global Health Resource Center atghrc@uw.edu or at (206)685-7362.

An Ecological Approach to Intervention Development in Low Resource Settings

Sita Patel, PhD

Date: Monday, November 14th, 2016
Time: 3:30 p.m. – 5:00pm.
Location: Harris Hydraulics:
Large Conference Room (Room 322)

Dr. Sita G. Patel is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Palo Alto University (PAU). Her research focuses on risk and resiliency, culture and context as they relate to global trauma and immigrant mental health. She uses mixed methods, ecological theory, and community partnership to study trauma, psychosocial adjustment, and barriers to accessing treatment for mental illness among individuals living in low resource and instable contexts.

Her current international projects include a USAID-funded intervention study of trauma healing and peace education in the Central African Republic, and a collaboration with the Africa Mental Health Foundation to examine challenges among traditional healers in Kenya. Her domestic projects include a longitudinal school-based study of risk and resiliency among newcomer adolescent immigrants, and a community partnership to evaluate services for refugee survivors of torture. At PAU, Dr. Patel is the faculty advisor for the Cultural Transitions Research Group and Students for Global Mental Health. In 2016, she was a visiting scholar at the Africa Mental Health Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya, and at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.

Dr. Patel completed an undergraduate degree at Vassar College; a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley; a pre-doctoral internship at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital); and postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco (Community Academic Research Training Alliance). Prior to joining the Palo Alto University faculty, Dr. Patel taught courses at New York University, University of San Francisco, and U.C. Berkeley.

For more information contact:  Eaden Andu at andue@uw.edu, (206) 779-3301

People’s Health Movement, Health Alliance International & the Somali Health Board
present a two-day short course about health activism

International People’s Health University 

THE STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH
focus on
Immigrant & Refugee Rights and Mental Health

April 21 – 22, 2016
9am – 5pm

Ethnic Cultural Center
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

This free, two-day course will cover health as a human right, political economy of health, mental health, and social determinants of health through the lens of immigrant and refugee experiences in a local and global context. During the IPHU participants will work together to address a health concern, produce an action plan, and create steps for change in the community.

Join with fellow health activists to learn, discuss and initiate change in our community!

No cost to register, but space is limited!  Reserve your place now at www.healthallianceinternational.org/iphu

DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL HEALTH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR FIELDWORK & GRADUATE CERTIFICATES INFORMATION SESSION

When: Friday, January 29, 2015, 12– 1 p.m.
Where: Student Union Building (HUB), Room 214

*Department of Global Health Fellowships*

Come learn about the Department of Global Health’s five funding opportunities for travel support and fieldwork experiences for graduate and professional students, and medical residents at the University of Washington. The purpose of these fellowships is to provide financial assistance to a graduate student, professional student, or medical resident at the University of Washington to help support fieldwork experience in global health.

• George Povey Social Justice and Activism in Global Health Fellowship
• Global Opportunities in Health (GO Health) Fellowship
• Strengthening Caring Opportunities through Partnership in Ethiopia (SCOPE) Fellowship
• Stergachis Endowed Fellowship in International Exchange
• Thomas Francis, Jr. Global Health Fellowship

These funding opportunities are administered by the Global Health Resource Center and provide assistance for costs associated with doing fieldwork outside of Seattle. Applications for each may be submitted via a Common Application and Catalyst Dropbox. Visit the Funding for Fieldwork page to learn more!

The fellowship application will be available beginning Monday, February 1, 2016 and will close Monday, March 14, 2016.

*Department of Global Health Graduate Certificates*

Come learn about the Department of Global Health’s graduate certificate programs. A graduate certificate is a linked series of graduate courses that constitute a coherent body of study. It is designed to enhance the education of matriculated graduate and professional students beyond the requirements for a graduate degree, or to provide continuing education to graduate non-matriculated (GNM) students. The Department of Global Health offers four certificates in the following fields:

• Global Health
• Program in HIV & STIs
• Global Injury & Violence Prevention
• Global Health of Women, Adolescents & Children

Visit the Department of Global Health Graduate Fellowships page to learn more!

For MSW Students, up to 6 credits of courses that are taken as electives for both programs may be double-counted for both the degree and the certificate.  For more information about how certificates work with the MSW program, please speak with Lin Murdock, linm@uw.edu.

“The Chronic Disaster of Mental Health in Nepal: Strengthening Health Systems Before and After the Earthquake”

Tuesday, February 9th, 4:30-6:20 p.m.
Foege Auditorium (GNOM S060)

Visiting speakers: Brandon Kohrt, MD, PhD, Duke University & Bibhav Acharya, MD, UCSF

Refreshments will be provided.

Announced by the UW Global Mental Health group.

International Opportunities in Social Work – http://www.ngoabroad.com/

SRI LANKA: Community Organizing & Community Development in the Slums One billion people on this planet live in slums. Social Work proudly pioneered work in the slums.
Come work with this amazing org that has systematically improved housing, infrastructure and economic development.
Have strong community organizing skills? We need you to help involve the community in each and every improvement being made, and strengthening their skills and buy in to community development.

COSTA RICA: Domestic Violence – Spanish fluency required Work in the shelter; do community education; help women become economically independent so they can leave abusive relationships; and/or help develop counseling programs for women, men and kids.
This is a great place to get experience with group and/or individual therapy or play therapy with the kids.

UGANDA: Community Organizing & Women
This Ugandan social work director who emphasizes empowering women, does a phenomenal job of teaching villages how to assess their needs, their strengths and achieve their goals.

INDIA: Training “barefoot counselors”
In many places language differences prevent foreigners from doing direct service but this psychiatric social worker created a way for you to help:
Train local Indians about mental health so they can help those with psychological or psychiatric needs.

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Department of Global Health Fellowships Information Session

When: Friday, December 4, 2015, 2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Where: South Campus Center, Room 303

Come learn about the Department of Global Health’s five funding opportunities for travel support and fieldwork experiences for graduate and professional students, and medical residents at the University of Washington.

• George Povey Social Justice and Activism in Global Health Fellowship
• Global Opportunities in Health (GO Health) Fellowship
• Strengthening Caring Opportunities through Partnership in Ethiopia (SCOPE) Fellowship
• Stergachis Endowed Fellowship in International Exchange
• Thomas Francis, Jr. Global Health Fellowship

These funding opportunities are administered by the Global Health Resource Center and provide assistance for costs associated with doing fieldwork outside of Seattle. Applications for each may be submitted via a Common Application and Catalyst Dropbox. Visit the Funding for Fieldwork page to learn more!

The application will be available beginning Monday, February 1, 2016 and will close Monday, March 14, 2016

The Department of Global Health has a full week of great events for anyone interested in global health. Our marquee event is the Global Healthies Award Ceremony on Monday, May 11. We also have a Career Fair with more than 20 organizations, a Trivia Night with Dr. King Holmes, several information sessions and discussions, and more.

Global Health Career Week 2015

Monday, May 4 – Monday, May 11, 2015

Sponsored by the Global Health Resource Center,

Department of Global Health, University of Washington

For more details: globalhealth.washington.edu/ghcareer2015

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Are you passionate about health equity and engaged in community settings where you are seeking to address health disparities?  Do you enjoy expressing yourself through art, music, film, poetry, photography, or other creative forms?

If so, this is your chance to enter a submission into the Health Equity Reflections Contest, which encourages you to combine your passions and share your reflections with a broader audience!

Submissions Due May 7th at 5pm

How it works:

• We’ve got prizes!  The top three winners will each receive $250 of funding which can be utilized to support attendance at a health equity themed conference OR put toward supporting a health equity focused student group initiative.
• Contestants should be prepared to present their submission at the Health Sciences Service Learning and Advocacy Summit on May 19th between 6-8 in the Rotunda.  Dinner will be provided.
• Submissions must focus in some way on your personal engagements with health equity focused service learning, advocacy, or organizing.
• Please be conscientious of patient or client confidentiality in your reflections.
• Be creative! As long as you can figure out a way to share your reflection with us, we’re open to all forms of expression.

How to enter:

• Fill out and submit the catalyst survey below by May 7th at 5pm: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/caldweka/269042
• Put the HSSLA Summit on your calendar.
• Wait for notification from the Summit Subcommittee about the status of your entry.
• If selected, plan to share your entry at the Summit.

Because being a future health professional doesn’t mean relinquishing your humanity, sense of justice, or creativity! 

Questions? Please email David Fernando at somserve@uw.edu

The Unending Hunger: Tracing Women and Food Insecurity Across Borders

May 14^th    –     5:30-7:30 pm    –   Kane Hall, Room 210

Join us as UW Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture Megan Carney addresses these important questions while sharing from her recent book The Unending Hunger, an ethnography that underscores the ways that food insecurity prevails in women’s experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States.Lecture and Book Signing featuring Dr. Megan A. Carney

RSVP at www.tinyurl.com/unendinghunger or email somserve@uw.edu

For more information, please contact somserve@uw.edu and follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/uwhscommonbook

Disability Resources for Students and many wonderful co-sponsors invite you to attend a health sciences lecture by Rick Guidotti and a special screening of the short documentary, On Beauty.

Positive Exposure: The Spirit of Difference – Health Sciences Lecture by Rick Guidotti

Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Time: 9:00 am

Location: Turner Auditorium (Room D-209)

Details: The School of Medicine, MEDEX Northwest, School of Nursing, School of Dentistry, Speech and Hearing Sciences, and the Division of Physical Therapy, and the Department for Bioethics and the Humanities will host a health sciences lecture by Rick Guidotti. This lecture is geared toward members of the medical community and open to all. Rick Guidotti, a world renowned photographer, became interested in using visual arts to change the way society understands genetic differences, disability and beauty. His Positive Exposure photo and video presentation encourages students and professionals in the health sciences to see individuals with genetic differences as whole people, not just their specific diagnoses.  More information on Rick and his work can be found here: Ted Talk and Positive Exposure

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Good Evening,

As some of you know, I’m working on increasing awareness of food security resources for college students. Food Security, as defined by the World Health Organization, means “having access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life.”

I’ve created a survey to gauge the awareness of food security and food resources among college students and college staff. Can you help spread the word to your college staff, students and recent alums you know?

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GH 490/590D Global Violence and Health (3 credits)
All Sections: Thursdays 9:30-11:20am
Graduate Discussion Section: Thursdays, 11:30am-12:20 pm
Undergraduate Discussion Section: Tuesdays, 10:30-11:20 am
Instructors: Deepa Rao and Charlie Mock

The Department of Global Health is offering a new 3-credit course that is designed for both undergraduate and graduate students
interested in pursuing work at the crossroads of the Health and the Social Sciences. The course will examine the socio-cultural and
political forces that give rise to violence.

Topics covered include:
• Assessing Violence and Measuring Change
• Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment
• The Global Farmer Suicide Epidemic
• Gender Based Violence and Maternal Child Health
• Health Consequences of War, Conflict, and Political Violence
• Torture and Mental Trauma
• ‘Non-Violent’ Resistance

Please contact Paul Nevin with any questions at penevin@uw.edu.

Are you passionate about social change and health equity? 

Want to hear from an M.D. who has worked with legal teams to advocate on behalf of individuals and communities that are often abandoned and treated poorly by our health care system?

If you answered yes to either of these questions:

Join SeaMar Dr. Julian Perez on Nov. 19^th from 6:00-8:00 in T-435 for this Common Book Series event!

Food will be provided!!  All students welcome!

 

Please RSVP through Facebook so we know how much food to order:

http://tinyurl.com/nunfvze   If you don’t have Facebook, email somserve@uw.edu.

 

 

See details, directions, and accessibility information below!  Your help circulating this through your networks is greatly appreciated!

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This summer the UW Department’s Global Health Summer Institute will be offering condensed courses that are open to both students and the public via either UW tuition (for credit) or a fee-per-course (non-credit) basis.  SSW students taking these courses must take it for UW credit to count it towards the MSW degree.  MSW students may take up to 3 of their elective credits out of department as long as the course is at the 500 level and somehow related to social work, which these courses would be. Register early as space is limited! For questions, or to register, please visit our website or contact Cole at gshi@uw.edu.

The courses range from 1-3 credits and are taught off the traditional schedule (so often daily, 4-6 hours/day for a week or two).

Please see the following website for course descriptions: http://globalhealth.washington.edu/academics/summer-institute

Please see the time schedule for course numbers and schedule line numbers to register for credit: http://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/SUM2014/gh.html

Course titles:

• Core Topics in Global Health
• Managing Global Health Programs for Success
• Global Health Economics
• Introduction to Public Health Surveillance
• Health in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
• Principles of STD/HIV Research
• Global Burden of Disease
• Introduction to Implementation Science for STD/HIV
• Interactive Data Visualization for Global Health

 

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